East Midlands Railway’s new Intercity fleet has been named Aurora – chosen from more than 2,000 competition entries. The Aurora fleet includes Japanese bullet-train technology and will provide fast, comfortable and state-of-the-art journeys between London, Sheffield and Nottingham from 2023. Aurora matched EMR ethos Aurora appealed to the judges because of the name’s

Passengers in Cumbria are being advised to plan their journeys next month when Network Rail upgrades track near Bootle station. On five consecutive Sundays from November 15 to December 13, buses will replace trains between Sellafield and Millom. The £2.3m Great North Rail Project investment will involve replacing over 4,000 metres

NETWORK RAIL has been awarded a tender by Cornwall Council for a scheme to upgrade the railway network in central Cornwall, which would mean improving the infrastructure on the Newquay branch and introducing through services between Newquay, St Austell, Truro and Falmouth under the title of Mid-Cornwall Metro. The two bodies

The North Norfolk Railway has invested in special measures to ensure the highly popular Santa Specials and the Norfolk Lights Express trains can continue to operate this Christmas. The Santa Specials will operate from every weekend from November 28 until December 18, then daily up to and including Christmas Eve. There are

TIME is running out for a new funding settlement for Transport for London, amid increasing crossfire between the government and TfL over what the ‘price’ of a settlement should be. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants driverless trains to be a condition of any payment, but a newly-leaked report prepared by

Additional charges for rearranging advance railway journeys disrupted by COVID-19 regulations will be scrapped, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. The DfT said the new measures will ensure passengers affected by changing levels of restrictions across the UK will not be left out of pocket. The new temporary measures mean those

The number of women applying to be train drivers at the UK’s biggest rail operator has doubled thanks to recruitment and marketing campaigns. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which runs Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express services, said 825 women had applied to be trained as a driver so far this

Passengers who bought Advance tickets have been angered by the refusal of train operators to recompense them when they could not travel as a result of a lockdown. The government, which controls the policy on this, has now given way and says that unused Advance tickets can be rebooked for

PROTESTS from passengers who were unable to use Advance tickets because of lockdown restrictions but simply lost their money when they did not travel on the booked date have been heeded by the Government. Although cash refunds will still not be given, passengers holding these tickets will be able to rearrange

ONE of the lines to Stratford-upon-Avon has been closed after a bridge on the route from Birmingham via Henley-in-Arden was found to be damaged. Network Rail said there could be no train services for the time being at Wootton Wawen, Henley-in-Arden, Danzey, Wood End, The Lakes, Earlswood, or Whythall. Replacement buses